Bubble bath?

A vice-chairman’s work is never done… You may think that such high office in a railway organisation means it’s all meetings and traybakes and awards ceremonies. That’s definitely not the case for our vice-chairman Mike. With public trains just around the corner, thoughts turned to making the station presentable. The recently-arrived cement bubble wagon was […]

HRA Awards 2026

The official snaps are in – and perhaps the entourage is only just recovering – but a huge congratulations to the DCDR and the Irish Traction Group posse at the Heritage Railway Association Awards last weekend at Llandudno. No need to go waiting for a star to fall this year… Christopher McCausland picked it up […]

Spring is in the air

With our first public running day of the year coming up on St Patrick’s Day, our volunteers on Saturday were definitely in a Spring-cleaning mode, as we started getting the railway ready for the public again. Mark, Callum and Connor were hard at work all day in the bright sunshine cleaning the platform edge with […]